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Come live with me and be my love

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  1. The opening line of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” a poem by Christopher Marlowe.


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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, or hills, or field, Or woods and steepy mountains yield.

From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry

Come live with me and be my love.

From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by Shields, George O.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, and hills and fields, The woods or steepy mountains yields.

From Old Ballads by Various

He introduces the beautiful lines, "Come live with me, and be my love," as "that smooth song made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago."

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George

Marlowe is the author of the pleasant madrigal, called by Izaak Walton "that smooth song": Come live with me and be my love.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry